Protesters ramped up complaints about geese extermination outside Mayor Michael Bloomberg's Upper East Side home after one woman stumbled upon geese exterminators rounding up the animals in Inwood Hill Park.

Suzanne Soehner was walking her dog inside the park and says she stumbled upon federal wildlife officers preparing to kill dozens of Canada geese Tuesday morning.

Realizing Charles Walsh's column's a stab at humor, it succeeds when telling us a roto-tiller chased a New Jersey resident around the yard. You've offended us, however, when advocating that readers gun for squirrels, or consider birds worth poisoning -- too worthless to admire.

"One thing we don't have are a lot of the facts." - Senate Committee Chairman Mark Manendo

By Catherine Burt
Friends of Animals

UPDATE: May, 23 2011

Responding to a firestorm of public outrage against Nevada bill AB 329, which sought to deny water rights for wild horses and burros, the Senate Natural Resources Committee chose not to take action on the bill without further study.